Re: Megaupload.com seized

[Roland Perry <lists () internetpolicyagency com>]

In article 
<596B74B410EE6B4CA8A30C3AF1A155EA09C8CDBA () RWC-MBX1 corp seven com>, 
George Bonser <gbonser () seven com> writes
> The problem is going to be the thousands of people who have now lost
> their legitimate files, research data, personal recordings, etc. that
> they were using Megaupload to share.

But that's an operational risk of using any commercial entity as a 
filestore. Thousands of people lost[1] a lot of work when fotopic.net 
collapsed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fotopic.net

[1] As it's getting on for a year since an apparent rescue attempt, and 
nothing has emerged, this seems a reasonable assumption.
--
Roland Perry